/boot contents removed

[icedtea]

is there a way to retrieve all the contents of /boot IF its proven that it was rm? ?

[aliov]

i don't understand you did a rm -rf /boot ? if yes there is no solution to retrieve it.
if you mean that you want to boot your installed Slackware so please tell me i have a solution for that.

[icedtea]

actually not rm -rf

as far as i could remember i mounted /dev/hdc6 (/boot) into a created dir (bootest)

so its like

mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/bootest

THEN from

/mnt

i did rm bootest

result :

cannot rm : device or source busy

> (back to prompt)

> i did umount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/bootest

> cd /mnt
> rm -r bootest

is it really gone? ? ( i mean the /dev/hdc6 which is boot? )


actually not only /boot even /tmp /usr/ and /var

but i can still mount and read my /home and /


so everytime i try to mount /dev/hdc6 (boot) in a created dir, no files are seen when i do ls.. BUT when i type df -h

i can see the percentage of the usage of the /dev/hdc6

eg.
size used available mounted on
/dev/hdc6 100M 4% 96% /mnt/bootest (sample created dir)

[aliov]

I still confused, you can mount / but you can see the /boot directory when mount / or not ?

[icedtea]

i forgot.. when i installed slack .. i separated :

/boot
/tmp
/usr
/home
/var
/swap

from

/

for the reason if ever a problem will arise i can easily mount and umount the spcific partitions..

[aliov]

it seems that you still have the data (because you umount the /bootest befor delete it) but you should create a directory compatible with what you have in /etc/fstab and mount it so the data should appear again.

hope this help

[icedtea]

can u explain it further? i got confused .. thanks

[aliov]

During the install process of Slackware you mount /boot as something other than / so the /etc/fstab file should contain the proper information as an example.
/dev/hda2 /mnt/SuSE reiserfs defaults 0 0

for me if i umount the /mnt/SuSE and delete it nothing happen to the SuSE data,if i want to mount it again we should create a directory called /mnt/SuSE to be compatible with fstab file
so mkdir SuSE , and mount SuSE the suse data should appear again however if i create a directory called from example /mnt/suse and try to mount it so it give me a error that it's not in the fstab.
so go to your fstab and see it and try to figure out what inside related to your boot directory.

hope this help